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Five men from the class of 1910 have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. These men are chosen from those members of the Senior class who, although they have not qualified as regular candidates for admission to the society, have attained distinguished excellence in scholarship, and have shown marked ability in other intellectual interests...
...purpose of the society is to encourage effective and sincere public speaking, and in this respect it occupies the same position with regard to debating and public address that the Phi Beta Kappa society occupies toward scholarship. Membership in the society is limited to those who have actually participated in an intercollegiate debating or public speaking contest. The society was nationally organized four years ago and now has twenty-one chapters including Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Brown, George Washington University, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan...
...sanity in athletics, of growing respect for the scholar, and of contempt for the loafer. It is impossible to measure exactly the growth of such public opinion, if it exists. We are still some way from the time when the "H" of a major team and a Phi Beta Kappa key will be esteemed of equal value. But the very indifference which attends the ending of the free elective system is evidence that such an opinion is being formed. In the good old days when Harvard was but a College, all men of necessity were students and some of choice...
Twenty-three men from the class of 1910 and eight men from the class of 1911 have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarship and character are the basis for election to the society. Scholarship is not regarded as merely the attainment of high grades "in unrelated and often elementary courses," but as the combination of academic distinction and general ability. The aditional members from the class of 1910 are to be elected at a later date...
...Beta Kappa oration at Commencement will be delivered by Governor Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, and the poem by Rev. Henry Van Dyke h.'94, Professor of English of Princeton University. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre June 30, 1909, the day after Commencement...